Just saw on CNBC a news report regarding two passenger trains which ran into eachother in Norway. Details sketchy...no reason for accident given.

No, it's NOT immediately a Y2k issue. It could well be about "going manual" and "human error" in a computer hampered world, however. Yes, this kind of thing happens...but are we seeing an increase?

Mike

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-- Mike Taylor (mtdesign3@aol.com), January 04, 2000

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Has anyone heard anything more about the 2 train crashes? I can't find anything about the one in Norway or the one in Quebec.

-EricE

-- EricE (ready@for.anything), January 04, 2000.

CNN on Norwegian

"There was no indication what could have caused the accident."

Well, either a human appoved the use of the same set of tracks by trains moving in opposite directions, or a system did. Short answer.

-- lisa (lisa@work.now), January 04, 2000.

Thanks for the link, Lisa. Our hearts go out to those families. But human failure or computer failure (Y2K or not), you can bet that in a situation like this it will never be attributed to Y2K problems by officials - even if Y2K DID cause it.

-EricE

-- EricE (ready@for.anything), January 04, 2000.

Am watching CNN Headline News and under the scrolling state headlines there is a mention of a train crash in Alaska being attributed to ice on the rails. Haven't heard anything else about it though.

-- Lisa (lisadawn@yahoo.com), January 04, 2000.

Amendment to above post...."derailment and fuel spill" is the verbage used in the Alaska blip

-- Lisa (lisadawn@yahoo.com), January 04, 2000.